If tomatoes and avocados are considered fruits, are there any fruits that are considered vegetables?

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If tomatoes and avocados are considered fruits, are there any fruits that are considered vegetables?

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Quite a few: tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchinis, pumpkins, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, christophene, okra, breadfruit, avocado, green beans, lentils, snow peas, soybean are all botanically fruits, but considered vegetable in cuisine. (Vegetable is not a botanical term.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable#Examples_of_different_parts_of_plants_used_as_vegetables

Sep 16 2011, 3:56 AM

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Answer 1

All fruit are considered vegetables but not all vegetables are considered fruit (Below ground growth, leaves, bark and inner pulp of the stem are not fruit) Fruit are the result of seed forming for the most part and are related to only the flower part of a plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_palm